AXIe: AdvancedTCA® Extensions for Instrumentation and Test

January 6, 2012

Copyright © 2012 AXIe Consortium, Inc.

* AdvancedTCA is a registered trademark of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG)

AXIe Specifications: What and Why

• What is it? ▫ A family of next-generation, open specifications that extends Advanced

Telecom Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA®) for general purpose instrumentation and semiconductor test

• Why another modular test standard? ▫ Lowers cost Highest performance per rack inch Superb scalability

▫ Integrates easily with PXI, LXI and IVI ▫ Modularity, Flexibility, Speed => addresses a range of platforms Bench top Modular systems ATE Systems

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* AdvancedTCA is a registered trademark of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG)

Why AdvancedTCA as a foundation? • AdvancedTCA PICMG® 3.0 Specification: proven open system architecture • Large board size

▫ Ideal for high performance instrumentation ▫ Board size matches that of planar instrument design ▫ Exceptional cooling

• Rack space efficiency ▫ Horizontal and vertical configurations

• Scalability ▫ 1 slot to 16 slots, 1 Chassis to many, PXI/PCI adapters

• Ideal for high power applications ▫ Single rail power management and robust cooling

• Virtual LXI and PXI ▫ Base fabric support of LAN, data fabric support of PCIe

• Robust system management ▫ Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) enables both single

chassis and multi-chassis system control functions • Extensions for I/O allow Zone 3 definitions for identified vertical markets

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* PICMG is a registered trademark of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group.

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• 2-16 Slot Shelf • 2-14 Slots in 19” Rack

• 2 Hub Slots • 14 Node Slots • User Zone 3 Backplane

• LAN routed to every slot • PICMG 3.4: PCIe to every slot • Large form factor cards • Flexible power (48V) and air cooled design

AdvancedTCA Shelf (Chassis)

• Examples: • Network Test • Physics • Liquid Cooling • Custom

AXIe 1.0

Semiconductor Test

Other future Apps

•ATCA + Core Triggers, Timing and Local bus

• Zone 3 signals • DUT I/O on RTM • Add’l Trigger/Sync • Analog Busses • FRU & RTM Management

AXIe 3.1

•AdvancedTCA PICMG3.0, PICMG3.4 • LAN + PCIe • System Management

•ATCA topologies of stars, meshes and slot numbers

Zone 3

Zone 1+2 Topology

ATCA

AXIe 3.N • AXIe 3.N specifications define Zone 3 capabilities for specific markets

• Can define specific additional system management and system resources.

• May work on top of a standard ATCA topologies or AXIe 1.0

• AXIe expands on the spectrum of

allowable ATCA Zone 1 and 2 topologies to include AXIe 1.0, allowing embedded data transfer and synchronization enhancements

• ATCA is the base specification for all AXIe specifications

AXIe Specification Structure AXIe is a scalable family of specifications allowing a portfolio of applications.

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AXIe 1.0 and 3.1 Features

Feature 1.0 3.1 PCIe & LAN Hubs x Local Bus x Trigger Bus (TRIG) x Frequency Reference (CLK100) & Sync (SYNC) x Star Trigger (STRIG) x Bidirectional DSTAR (4) x User Defined Synchronization Signals x Load Board Support x Field Calibration Support x

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AXIe leverages ATCA 7

AdvancedTCA

IVI PXI LXI

• Virtual PXIe instruments • PCIe communication

• Virtual LXI instruments • LAN communication

• Standard drivers work in all Application Development Environments

• VISA specifications

AXIe • AdvancedTCA specific extensions • IPMI and resource management • Timing and Sync • Zone 3 configurations

…draws from and works with existing instrument standards

High scalability of AXIe

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Specialty instrument with AXIe module PXI

PXI

PXI carrier module

1U

n U Horizontal

14 slot Vertical

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LXI Box Instruments

PXI

AXIe (LAN and PCIe on backplane)

LAN

GP-IB Instruments

GP-IB

Stand-alone PC CablePCIe

Note: Graphic for example only, instruments do not need to be co-located in same rack unit.

Common control via • Rack mounted controller, or • Embedded controller in chassis, or • Desktop controller

AXIe integration with Rack and Stack

AXIe 1.0 adds Timing and Triggering to ATCA 10

12 TRIG[0:11]

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AXIe Performance: Timing and Triggering

RMS Jitter of 12ps has been demonstrated Slot-to-slot time matching is specified <100ps

AXIe 1.0 adds a High-Speed Local Bus to ATCA 12

P20

N-1Physical Slot

P21

P23

P24

P20

N

P21

P23

P24

P20

N+1

P21

P23

P24

0-7, 18-21

42-61

8-17

22-41

LBR LBRLBL LBL

0-7, 18-21

42-61

8-17

22-41

62 x 10Gbps = 620Gbps

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Feature AXIe PXIe Chassis base AdvancedTCA cPCI/cPCIe

PCIe maximum data bandwidth (Maximum Gen 2.0): Single peripheral slot to backplane All peripheral slots to system slot

2 GB/s 26 GB/s

4 GB/s 8 GB/s

PCIe fabric Yes Yes

LAN backplane Yes No

Local bus 18 pairs req 62 pairs opt

1 line (13 PXI)

Triggers Bidirectional Star Trigger

12 signal MLVDS bus

Star Trigger(1xTTL, 3x Diff per slot)

8 Signal TTL bus

Frequency Reference & Sync 100MHz, yes 10MHz, 100MHz, yes

Power per slot 200 W 30 W

Board space per slot (higher density, flexibility)

900 cm2 160 cm2

Modules available New ~1100

AXIe is the “Big Brother” of PXI

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PXIe

Total module board area 5 x 900 = 4500 cm2 17 x 160 = 2720 cm2

Total module volume 4500 x 3 = 13500 cm3 2720 x 2 = 5440 cm3

Total module power 200W x 5 = 1000 W 17 x 30 = 510 W

Horizontal AXIe compared with PXI

1U rack mount computer

AXIe

1U rack mount computer or airspace

The tale of two 4U chassis:

4U 4U

AXIe 3.1 Vision

• Provide an instrumentation environment that reduces the overall cost of test for the Semiconductor Product Test Process.

• Bridge the gap between Device Characterization and high volume Production Test

• Provide Semiconductor ATE instrumentation for Device Characterization ▫ High Speed Digital Pins ▫ DC & Power Instrumentation

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AXIe 3.1 Semiconductor Test Requirements • Mass Terminated instrument IO mating ▫ Managed device test fixtures with quick disconnect

• In Situ system maintenance Diagnostics and Calibration. ▫ System Checkers ▫ Field Calibration

• High Channel Count Instrumentation ▫ 1000’s of digital pins ▫ 100’s of DC power supplies

• Support for single site Characterization AND high volume Multi-Site production

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AXIe 3.1 Extensions • Timing and Triggering Extension ▫ Quad Bi-Directional Star Trigger to Each Slot ▫ Digital Channel Vender-Defined Synchronization

• Test Fixture Support ▫ Instrument I/O via Rear Transition Modules ▫ DUT Load Board ▫ Modular Checker Load Boards ▫ Instrument Calibration Load Boards

• Field Calibration Path ▫ External NIST traceable instruments ▫ 4 Wire Kelvin Calibration Bus to each slot ▫ 1 Amp, 300 Volt Max

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AXIe 3.1 Synchronization

• Instrument Triggering ▫ 4 Star Triggers from System Module to each Instrument node ▫ Non blocking Bi-directional Differential Terminated BLVDS ▫ Single Source to Many destinations ▫ Chassis to Chassis synchronization via System Module

• Pattern Based Synchronization: UserSync ▫ 5 star-distributed signals from System Module to each Instrument

node for Pattern Based Synchronization ▫ Digital Pattern Synchronization between Digital Instruments and

Analog Instruments. ▫ Up to 4 Synchronized Chassis

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Summary

• Extending AdvancedTCA ▫ AXIe is based on AdvancedTCA with extensions for instrumentation and test.

• General Purpose (1.0) , Base Software Specification (2.0), & Semiconductor Test (3.1) ▫ AXIe will have a base architecture specification of AXIe 1.0 for general

instrumentation, a base software specification, AXIe 2.0, and a Zone 3 specification AXIe 3.1 for semiconductor test.

• More Performance, Scalability, Flexibility ▫ AXIe delivers higher performance in a flexible, scalable platform.

• PXI, LXI, IVI ▫ AXIe works well with other standards, such as PXI, LXI and IVI.

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AXIe is the “Big Brother” of PXI • Specifications may be downloaded from the AXIe

Consortium website at www.axiestandard.org

Specification Management

• AXIe Consortium ▫ AXIe Consortium manages AXIe 1.0, 2.0 and 3.1 specifications ▫ For more information, go to www.axiestandard.org or email Bob Helsel,

Executive Director at execdir@axiestandard.org • Potential future AXIe standard efforts ▫ Improved integration of ATCA, AXIe 1.0, AXIe 2.0 and AXIe 3.1

combinations ▫ AXIe 3.N specifications for additional markets ▫ Fully integrated PXImc ▫ MicroTCA® derivatives for AXIe

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* MicroTCA is a registered trademark of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG)